The following report is by ZeroHedge:
Americans are moving to Mexico at the highest pace since the stats first became available in 2010 — with requests for temporary-resident status skyrocketing 85% above 2019 levels.
Mexico granted 8,412 such permits over the first three quarters of this year, compared to 4,550 in the same period of 2019. Over the same period, Mexican grants of permanent residency are up 48%, reaching 5,418.
What started off as a pandemic escape for Americans seeking affordable destinations with few Covid-19 restrictions seems to have staying power.
Reports Bloomberg.
This isn’t just retirees looking for warm breezes and a low cost of living. The increase is also driven in part by the remote working trend, which the Mexican government has encouraged.
Mexico makes it easy for Americans to work south of the border. A tourist visa lets you work there for up to six months, so long as you receive payment outside Mexico. Many Americans repeatedly extend that timeframe by simply returning to the United States and then re-entering Mexico on a new visa, restarting the 180-day clock.
Given that framework, the temporary residence permits represent only a fraction of the actual number of Americans living indefinite stretches in Mexico. The US State Department puts the number at 1.6 million.
Mexico City is the top destination, and that’s a cause for controversy in the city that’s more populous than New York and holds a whopping one-fifth of the country’s entire population:
The rise in Americans staying longer troubles some locals concerned about the cost of living, especially in some of the historic neighborhoods that are their prime destinations in Mexico City. Social media is rife with complaints about the so-called digital nomads and their supposed impact on rising rents.
Bloomberg wrote
The Mexico City government, however, is embracing the influx of spenders with open arms. Last week, city officials announced an initiative with Airbnb to promote the city as a great place for remote workers.
“We want now to promote it even more,” said Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum, who tried to allay fears that the stream of Americans were nudging rents higher.
Most digital nomads favor expensive neighborhoods, Sheinbaum argued, such as Condesa, Roma and Polanco. Rents in Condesa, which the UK Evening Standard dubbed “Mexico City’s coolest neighbourhood,” rose 32% over the first half of 2022.
One such American nomad was profiled in a recent CNN report on the trend. Erik Rodriguez, a 37-year-old economic development analyst for a US-based agency who speaks little Spanish, moved to Mexico City to save money and enjoy the lifestyle.
In doing so, he moved from a studio apartment in San Diego to a one-bedroom apartment in Mexico City — and slashed his rent from $2,500 to $800.
On the other side of the coin, the same report told the story of a family restaurant that was priced out of the trendy Roma neighborhood after being a fixture there for 54 years.
Prices are much higher. It’s difficult because a lot of these foreigners come, and they have a bunch of money to be able to spend on these apartments and rents.
said one of five siblings who’d taken over the business from their father.
Others complain that the latest waves of Americans make little effort to learn Spanish and expect the employees at the restaurants and shops they patronize to speak English. “It’s not as though there’s an interest to participate and understand the local culture here,” one local told CNN.
Despite the discontent, don’t expect the Mexican government to start building its own wall anytime soon: Americans in Mexico generated $11.5 billion in revenue for the country in the first five months of this year alone.
Meanwhile, the continued splintering of American society will have many more gringos casting their wandering eyes south of the border.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
What a marvelous thing we have here: millions of illegals from Central and South America continue to pour through the southern border, with Dems and Rhinos anxious to throw more money at their feet to assimilate and still be illegal; as there is a rise in Americans checking out and going to Mexico. Funny stuff!
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
Lamentations 5:2
But these are the signs of a broken and collapsed empire. Once America’s economy implodes relatively soon, expect more to flee in desperation to Mexico and other Central American lands, and some islands.
[63] And it shall come to pass, that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it. [64] And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone. [65] And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind: [66] And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life: [67] In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see. Deuteronomy 28:63-67
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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WOW, this world has changed in such a short period of time. It certainly is not the world I was born in, and I want no part of this new world!
What goes around comes around!
Sharing place with pandecerias (that’s bakeries) and piñata shops as well as the multiple food vendors will be Starbucks, vegan eateries, and yoga studios (WARNING: yoga is eastern mysticism avoid it!) and once predominantly Mexican neighborhoods are becoming whiter and now they’re going to have to have English translation underneath their Spanish signs.
Take that!
JOHN 12
23 And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified.
24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
25 He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.
26 If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.
His word is our treasure on this earth that tarnished nor perishes. The God is Israel is our blessed assurance. Let all the poor and weary come to him and he shall give you rest.
All glory to God
I do not know how it will all pan out for these expatriates, but God scattered the nations and created the different languages and even split up the continents so people would not attempt to do what they did when they were building the Tower of Babel, the epitome of a one-world government. So I’m not sure how much God will bless these peoples’ lives.
That’s kind of dumb. The corruption and cartels have no competition or resistance in Mexico whatsoever, & the little people are taught to blame the ‘rich Americanos’ and ‘gringos’ for all the ills of Vatican crony controlled socialist Mexico. That was true even 45 to 50 years ago…..and you would be seriously outnumbered living in Mexico City, of all places. It was so huge, even 40 years ago that the folks I knew there said they’d never seen a soul they recognized personally while traveling out in the city beyond their own city block. ‘Homes’ were like Roman villas surrounded by walls topped with broken glass, wrought iron, & spikes….weirded out little old country girl, we never lock our doors at night me, to no end.
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That’s changed here now, too, though.
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I’m sure it’s only gotten worse there since the new prevalent cartel is even worse & more cruel than the old ones. The murders & kidnappings more open, prevalent & violent. Diabolical. Satanism on the rise with so-called Dia de la muerte and Santeria. They shot missionary Nancy Davis in cold blood, broad daylight just across the river from El Paso back in 2011, not liking any ‘interference’ in their activities….and that was mild for that crew. That gentle woman & her husband lived sacrificially amongst the poor, beleaguered & preyed upon for decades: it’s the Word and the word that they so hate & fear, any light or hope to the people’s despair, their proneness to terror & exploitation.
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I would think that moving there would not be smart for anyone not having their own small army at their disposal, or part of the corruption….and those types of people have no peace, live looking over their shoulders & paranoid of the next young lion coming up to take their place….or to kidnap & torture their nearest & dearest. The scripture has a lot to say about that….Proverbs & the Prophets are full of it, & the testimony of history upholds the scriptures.
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Ps 49:1 ¶ To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah. Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world:
Ps 49:2 Both low and high, rich and poor, together.
Ps 49:3 My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding.
Ps 49:4 I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp.
Ps 49:5 Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about?
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Ps 49:6 ¶ They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;
Ps 49:7 None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:
Ps 49:8 (For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceaseth for ever:)
Ps 49:9 That he should still live for ever, and not see corruption.
Ps 49:10 For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.
Ps 49:11 Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.
Ps 49:12 Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.
Ps 49:13 This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.
Ps 49:14 Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.
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Ps 49:15 ¶ But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.
Ps 49:16 Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased;
Ps 49:17 For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him.
Ps 49:18 Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and men will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself.
Ps 49:19 He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.
Ps 49:20 Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.